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PART FOUR.

QUENDI
AND
ELDAR.

QUENDI AND ELDAR.

The title Quendi and Eldar clearly belongs properly to the long essay
that is printed here, though my father used it also to include two other
much briefer works, obviously written at much the same time; one of
these, on the origin of the Orcs, was published in Morgoth's Ring (see
X.415, where a more detailed account is given). Quendi and Eldar is
extant in a typescript with carbon copy that can be fairly certainly
dated to the years 1959-60 (ibid.); and both copies are preceded by
a manuscript page that in addition to the following preamble gives a
parallel title Essekenta Eldarinwa.

Enquiry into the origins of the Elvish names for Elves
and their varieties clans and divisions: with Appendices
on their names for the other Incarnates: Men, Dwarves,
and Orcs; and on their analysis of their own language,
Quenya: with a note on the 'Language of the Valar'.

My father corrected the two copies carefully and in precisely the same
ways (except for a few later pencilled alterations). The text printed
here follows the original very closely, apart from very minor changes
made for consistency or clarity, the omission of a passage of extremely
complex phonology, and a reorganisation of the text in respect of the
notes. As often elsewhere in his later writings, my father interrupted
his main text with notes, some of them long; and these I have num-
bered and collected at the end, distinguishing them from my own
numbered notes by referring to them in the body of the text as Note 1,
Note 2, &c., with a reference to the page on which they are found.
Also, and more drastically, I have omitted one substantial section from
Appendix D (see p. 396). This was done primarily for reasons of
space, but the passage in question is a somewhat abstract account
of the phonological theories of earlier linguistic Loremasters and the
contributions of Feanor, relying rather allusively on phonological data
that are taken for granted: it stands apart from the content of the work
at large (and entered, I suspect, from the movement of my father's
train of thought rather than as a planned element in the whole).
Also for reasons of space my commentary is kept to a severe
minimum. Abbreviations used are PQ (Primitive Quendian), CE
(Common Eldarin), CT (Common Telerin), Q (Quenya), T (Telerin),
N (Noldorin), S (Sindarin), V (Valarin).

QUENDI AND ELDAR.

Origin and Meanings of the Elvish words referring to Elves